, 1887-06-09
NEW YORK LETTER.
Comments Upon Things In General and
Women In Particular.
Especial Correspondence.



Especial Correspondence
New YORK, May 10.
The widow, son and son-inlaw of Henry
Ward Beecher are preparing a life of the
P'rnt preacher, and, as in the case of the
"NionoiIs of Grant," the entire country will
he districted out to canvassers. 1t will he
the only authentic life of Beecher and 1t Is
fsai'l-'vill contain some private letters of pc
culiar interest.
When women of culture look around for
employment at the beginning of the tradi-
tlonal rainy day they would be toerably sure
of finding something congenial and remunera.
tive II they would take any one thing for
which they have a taste il not talent, cult
vate 1t and devote themselves to it, u.
course they must begin In small way; bul
in this country there Is always growth fol
any branch of business under the sun il it
conducted with ability and energy. AS on
woman who had n chance to know whercui
she spoke said: "You can sell Croton water
here in New York at 81 bottle If you hav,
it put up and labeled neatly and advertise IL
'judicously under some other name. Indeed
AIN not sure that you could not sell it uuder
its own name IL you had it labeled Superior
Croton water There Is Mary Tiinghast,
of a family which had wealth and social DO
sition, the head of which suddenly failed and
died. The widow and daughters moved
into the country. Mary was the eldest
and had artistic gifts. She had gone
abroad and worked faithfully i'm Carous
Duran's studio for year or longer. She de-
cided TO try to make her artistic requirements
u means of earning a livelihood. She went
into partnership with John Lafarge, whose
company was just being organized. They
decorated the Union League club and the
Vanderbilt houses. Miss Tillngbast invented
and patented a new kind of tapestry for the
Vanderbilt houses, for which she was paid
S3O,0U0, but they were so costly i'm material
and contained so much embroidery that sh1
did not have large profit even at that price,
Lafarge 81 Co failed three years ago. Aliss
rillnghast went abroad and stayed veal
and half, and is now decorating without
partner. She decorated the house of 1ee.
phone Bell in Washington, and is now nj
work on n house in Gramercy park for Cyrus
Fields son. Yes, and she has made the tiisl
church window ever made by a woman IN
this country, and it will soon be put in il,
place at Grace church, this city. Miss Til
linghast was among the artists who sent in
designs for the proposed window. The com
mittee had scrupies in regard to awnrdi"f
the contract to n woman. 1t looked II ita,
like helping to shatter the universe, but her
design was the best and she got it, But they
said she should use English glass. She s,uo
she would not. She had her way. Yes,
every woman under the sun who has any
ability in any direction could turn it to ac-
count IL she would only perfect herself ia
whatever line she started out on.
"One trouble With wo" IL in the matter of
earning their bread is tIat they have rather
narrow ideas in regard to the respectnbiitv
of certain kinds OF business If they cHtI.,
be bankers or railroad residents they dnn'I
want to be anything They will write poe
try, PAINT plaques Or teach languages at
-tirvation figures, and be comfortable in
mind, because those things arc classed among
the "genteel" empoyments for pentiewomen.
AT least they were when the world had lcss
sense than il has now But rs i.r f",iH' uto
some business calling in their owi lon'As, u,d
running it uuiJc like u man wuuIG--oh isar,
no, they wouldn't like that. They woald lose
caste" G. q.